Inured from the chaos that flanks it, the B-Two residence manages to capture tranquillity and languidness, despite being situated in a busy downtown frame. The house is designed on a plot measuring 45’x90’ with a dense residential fabric that is hardly immune to the urban vagaries of Bangalore.
In keeping with the client’s desire for a strictly Vastu compliant house, the placement of the spaces in the house are in synch with the plan of the Vastu Purusha Mandala. Thus the biggest challenge while designing the house was to arrive at a visually appealing structure from a rigid program that dictated the specific locations of various spaces. The design of this residence aims at getting rid of the solemn and stereotyped impression of a traditional Vastu defined home, where the nine grids curb the free flowing creativity of design. Instead it focuses primarily on creating an open and active living atmosphere where the young family can grow into and flourish.
The 10,000 sq.ft home is built on 27,000 sq.ft of land that has been landscaped using Zen and tropical elements. The clients bought this as a holiday home. They are well travelled and broad minded than most. In it, they wanted international sensibility paired with quirkiness and a place that provided a canvas for experimentation.
For this project in Bangalore, we had a corner site in a quiet and fast developing residential neighborhood. Client’s requirement was a vasthu four bedroom house on three levels. The design started to evolve based on providing maximum daylight and landscape views. The car porch leads you to the front double height semi open foyer, east and north light fills the foyer along with the shadow pattern created by the grill.
The ground level has a bedroom, open kitchen and dining, A prayer room in the centre of the house with formal and informal living spaces, the plan is open to create a sense of openness. Within the living room the bedroom is hidden for privacy in between the staircase and prayer room. Long sliding window shield a stone cladded pseudo wall on the northern side which can be converted to an extended seating area as well.
Refurbishment and extension of an existing home into a Dual home . Lower level for elderly mother and the upper level for Son and his family incorporating a lot of garden spaces. The project demonstrates a transformation of old single family house, into a dual family home on a 40ft x 70ft plot.
The Neighborhood displays identical row house typology, all its occupants have undergone constant transformations and yet managed to retain a balance of nature and manmade. Each house shares a common wall with the adjoining house demanding that extensions be made adhering to light and ventilation needs.
According to economists, we are currently living in the ‘Indian Century’, and Bangalore – with its moniker as the Silicon Valley of India, due to the large number of information technology companies based in the city – finds itself at the epicenter of this rapid growth.
Within this thriving Tech Hub, UNStudio has designed the new Karle Town Centre (KTC), while UNSense – the arch tech company founded by UNStudio – is collaborating with Karle Infra to curate the use of sensorial technologies throughout the masterplan. KTC is a development that aims to define Bangalore locally and inspire the whole of India to ‘lead by example’ when designing future urban destinations.
Karle Town Centre, which is currently under construction, enjoys a direct connection to the city’s ring road arterial and expanding metro lines. It is positioned prominently next to the established Manyata Tech Park with scenic views over Nagavara Lake and is designed to act as a natural magnet for people and activities in the urban panorama.
UNStudio: Ben van Berkel, Gerard Loozekoot with Harlen Miller, Maurizio Papa, Filippo Lodi, and Atira Ariffin, Bianca Dobru, Dana Behrman, Emma Whitehead, Jacques van Wijk, Jung Jae Suh, Maria Zafeiriadou, Pietro Scarpa, Sibilla Bonfanti, Yuntao Xu
The brief required a residence for a family of 6 on a 3000 Sq.Ft of plot located in Eagleton Golf Village located in Bidadi in north-western part of Bangalore. Eagleton Golf Village is a “Neo-posh gated community” where aspiring Golfers abode. The client himself is a high- profiled Single-Malt scotch-connoisseur who flies around the world for his profession about whiskeys. So he was specific that his house should be an inviting retreat after a high pressure work day. The client and his young daughters being aspiring Golfers is the basic reason for their site to be selected in Eagleton Golf Village. The site is located in a natural setting with Lush greenery amidst the Golf-Course and in a very pleasant climate.
The design brief was also mainly influenced by the restrictions of the Eagleton Golf course design guidelines. The Eagleton Golf course design guidelines imposed restrictions on the Building elevation profiles on all the four sides and on the overhanging/ cantilevers or any projection on all the four sides as well. Yet we as Architects, Radically explored the maximum possibility in a highly restricted freedom of expression to exercise our unique design skill-set to create a “Unique Home” to reflect the modernist style and the personality of our Client.
“Privacy is territorial, but it’s the art that blurs down the barriers.”
This building revolves around the concept of creating boundaries that do not intimidate the viewer rather enhances the experience of how a villa design can occupy less amount of space and yet create comfort and exhibit elegance. The villa as desired by the client works on the concept of sufficiency and serves the purpose of being a retreat home for a mature couple. The dominant colour pallet of the house is white with hues of grey that strikes a contrast to its colourful surroundings.
We were asked to design the admin and academic block for an upcoming university campus in suburbs of Bangalore catering to two important requirements along with the programatic brief which were to complete the project in minimum possible time-line and to make the structure adaptable for future additions and alterations. Hence, the idea of prefabricated steel structure was proposed where all major work was done in workshop and then these prefab components were assembled at site. This helped us achieve accuracy in less time without compromising the quality.
The residence sits in an urban fabric where the immediate context is a busy street and a lack of foliage for the house to respond to. The house is designed on a plot measuring 45’x90’, located in a typical Indian neighbourhood flanking the busy street. The dense residential fabric of the neighbourhood, proximity of the neighbours and the busy street in front prompted the conception of an introverted building. Diagrammatically, the program of the house is laid out in the form an ‘H-shaped plan’ that wraps around a courtyard such that each arm of the ‘H’ flanks the courtyard. The open to sky courtyard, a highly sustainable element, not only becomes the point of interest and activity within the house, but also represents the ‘outside’ within the introverted house. The pergolas help shade the double height space and cut the glare, while the green wall helps in reducing the heat. The court is an oasis not just for light but for fresh air as well, where hot air escapes and fresh air comes through. Acting as a light well, the court enables the user to have a macro oasis within the house. The interiority of the house is designed to revolve around the experience of the garden, similar to that of a conventional courtyard/thotti house.